| 单词 | to split one's ticket or ballot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto split one's (or the) ticket or ballot e. to split one's (or the) ticket or ballot: to vote for candidates of more than one party in an election. Also elliptical. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [verb (intransitive)] > vote in specific way to vote plump1742 plump1806 to split one's (or the) ticket or ballot1842 to vote the straight ticket1856 repeat1876 1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 14 July 2/1 The cry is raised of ‘Vote the whole ticket! Don't split your ticket!’ 1848 J. J. Hooper Widow Rugby in Some Adventures Simon Suggs (1851) 23 Never split in my life. 1848 Knickerbocker Mag. 18 515 Didn't Squire Great..split his ticket a couple of years since? 1905 N.Y. Evening Post 17 Oct. 1 Plenty of talk is heard about intentions to split ballots. 1946 Chicago Daily News 20 Nov. 18/5 Democrats..decided the country did need a change, and split their ticket. 1975 R. Stout Family Affair (1976) xiii. 141 He asked if I had split the ticket, and I said yes, I had voted for Carey but not for Clark. 1980 Times 8 Oct. 8/4 To persuade electors to ‘split the ticket’—to vote for a Republican President and for a Democratic senator. < as lemmas |
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